R.I.P. CELEBRITY DEATHS 2019(NON WRESTLERS)

[on_the_edge]

While I shed no tears for him I wonder if this is a good thing at this time. It is possible he had dirt on some powerful people that might not be discovered in an investigation and now we will never know. The fact this was his second attempt is suspicious. Seeing his case was not finished and attempted once he should have been watched 24/7. I fear some bad men are breathing a bit easier right now.

[Bazzy]

Did Jeffrey Epstein really take the cowards way out ? Mr Conspiracy Theories here . He knows a lot about some big powerful people , dead men tell no tales ?

[jimsteel]

Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver coach Darryl Drake has died, team officials said Sunday. He was 62.

Team president Art Rooney II confirmed Drake's death Sunday morning in a statement.
"Darryl had such an impact on the players he coached and everyone he worked with throughout his entire career," Rooney said. "He was a passionate coach and had a tremendous spirit toward life, his family, his faith and the game of football."
Head coach Mike Tomlin called Drake a "close friend" in a statement.

"He was an amazing husband, father and grandfather, and it is difficult to put into words the grief our entire team is going through right now."

In light of his death, the Steelers canceled their Sunday practice at St. Vincent College in Latrobe, Pennsylvania.
Drake joined the team in January 2018 after serving as wide receivers coach for the Arizona Cardinals from 2013 to 2017 and the Chicago Bears from 2004 to 2012, according to the team's website.

[on_the_edge]

Aug 11, 2019 4:26:34 GMT -5 Bazzy said:

Did Jeffrey Epstein really take the cowards way out ? Mr Conspiracy Theories here . He knows a lot about some big powerful people , dead men tell no tales ?

Just because he had already tried to kill himself once, he wasn't on suicide watch, hadn't been checked on in hours when he was supposed to be checked every 30 minutes by officers that were working extreme over time and his cellmate was removed for some reason before hand leaving him alone? Is that any reason to think something weird was going on?

[Swarm]

Surveillance photo of Epstein’s last visitor:

[on_the_edge]

Yea that checks out. With Trump in charge I wouldn't be surprised if the prison looked like a scene out of Airplane. People lined up as far as you could see waiting to get their shot at him.

[jimsteel]

Peter Fonda passed away at 79

[TTX]

RIP Peter.

[jimsteel]

Acclaimed animator who created Roger Rabbit dies aged 86

Richard Williams, who worked on hit films such as The Pink Panther, won three Oscars and three Baftas

The acclaimed animator Richard Williams, who worked on hit films including Roger Rabbit and The Pink Panther, has died.

The 86-year-old triple Oscar and triple Bafta winner, who was born in Toronto, Canada, and moved to Britain in the 1950s, died at his home in Bristol on Friday, his family announced.
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Williams was the animation director on the 1988 blockbuster Who Framed Roger Rabbit? – creating characters including Roger and Jessica Rabbit.

Williams won a Bafta as well as two Oscars for his work on the live-action animated film starring Bob Hoskins.

Williams also animated the title sequences for the 1970s comedy classics The Return Of The Pink Panther and The Pink Panther Strikes Again, and worked on Casino Royale.

Williams has previously credited Snow White – which he saw at the age of five – as having made a “tremendous impression” on him.

“I always wanted, when I was a kid, to get to Disney. I was a clever little fellow so I took my drawings and I eventually got in,” Williams told the BBC in 2008.

“They did a story on me, and I was in there for two days, which you can imagine what it was like for a kid.”

After that he said he was advised to learn how to draw properly and admitted he “lost all interest in animation” until he was 23 – throwing himself into art.

He said he was drawn back to the craft because his “paintings were trying to move”.

His first film, The Little Island, was released in 1958 and scooped a Bafta. He won his first Oscar in 1971 for his animated adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.

During his lengthy career, Williams also wrote a how-to book called The Animator’s Survival Kit and was animating and writing until the day he died.

[jimsteel]

Kip Addotta Dies: Comedian Appeared On ‘The Tonight Show’, Was 75

Comedian Kip Addotta, who frequently appeared on The Tonight Show, has died. His family posted on Facebook but did not provide details on his death. He was 75.

Addotta’s credits in addition to The Tonight Show included The Midnight Special, Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert, and the syndicated Make Me Laugh. He also hosted the game show Everything Goes on the Playboy Channel.

In addition, Addotta was featured on the Dr. Demento radio show for his songs Wet Dream and Life in the Slaw Lane.

Born in Rockford, Illinois in 1944, Addotta also appeared as an actor in the films and Bound for Glory(1976) and For da Love of Money (2002) as well as TV’s The Larry Sanders Show (1992).

One of Addotta’s last Facebook posts this month showed his sometimes bizarre sense of humor.

Addotta wrote, “An elderly couple is walking along when a pigeon flys over and drops one right on the old lady’s head. She says oh my god, get me some toilet paper. He says, what the hell for, he’s a half mile away by now!”